<tt><font size=2>centos-devel-bounces@centos.org wrote on 09/11/2015 06:25:40
AM:<br>
> From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@centos.org></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Fabian is putting together a VM ( or 2 if you
need more ), for the BE<br>
> bringup. This would be a fedora19 VM.<br>
Thanks, KB. This is exciting!!!</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2><snip></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> We can repeat the same process for LE, s/Ashish/James/
for that. I<br>
> would defer to letting Ashish and James to include other people in
the<br>
> process as needed, however - all user accounts MUST be created via
the<br>
> bugs.centos.org process, and its important that Fabian is able to<br>
> execute the creation + access ( so its logged and auditable ).<br>
</font></tt><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As James can tell you, LE will
not be so simple. It will need to be "from scratch" because</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">of mis-matches between Fedora and CentOS
7 package levels associated with </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">the ppc64le enablement and glibc "year
zero" for this new architecture. But, rest assured</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">that James has the "recipe"
to do this. Thus, there's MUCH more work on the LE side of things.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><snip></font>
<br><tt><font size=2>> does this work for everyone involved here ?<br>
</font></tt><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What's the outlook for getting
LE VMs so that the this started as well. I'm getting lots of</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">pressure for LE CentOS from customers,
partners, and clients.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Perhaps we can get folks who have shown
interest in having Power on CentOS to post</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">their preferred architecture here?</font>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Once we have step-5 in place, we can engage with
Jim Perrin, and<br>
> workout the modalities and process of including the effort into the<br>
> CentOS AltArch SIG - which would give us a distro, test, delivery
proces<br>
</font></tt><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Sounds like a plan. As
they say in U.S. auto-racing events, "Gentlemen, start your engines!!!"</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">THANKS,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">-Jeff</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Jeffrey J. Scheel</font>
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